A view of the Acropolis from the Acropolis Museum, one of several cultural institutions that have opened in Athens over the last decade.
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Photographs by Chronis Spanos that pair unaltered and kaleidoscopic perspectives of the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum make us revisit the highly familiar in foreign reconfigurations.
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A stop at the ancient Acropolis, above, and the excellent new Acropolis Museum are essential, and we offer suggestions for drinks and dining in the city's lively neighborhoods.
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"Visitors can come down and see ancient ruins of the city of Athens, especially in the area south of the Acropolis," Acropolis Museum Director Dimitris Pantermalis told Reuters.
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Presented in the newly established Acropolis Museum, on the southeastern slope of the Acropolis, it was the first contemporary art project to have ever been shown at the museum.
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His father, Panayotis, was an archaeological guide at the Acropolis.
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Jordan, stripper, Acropolis: We eat there, and they eat here.
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President Barack Obama tours the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Nov.
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Even the Acropolis was closed due to the heat wave.
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I want to do "Oh, Hello" live at the Acropolis.
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And in Athens, the Acropolis had to be temporarily closed.
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Hip new hotels with Acropolis views are dotting the skyline.
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We had a staff meeting in a room overlooking the Acropolis.
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Fireworks light up the Acropolis in Athens during the New Year's Eve celebration.
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Known as the Acropolis, it became the setting for Easter Sunday celebrations and more.
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Victorian excavations of the Acropolis turned up some painted reliefs, sculptures, and marble gutters.
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Behind her, in the distance, the roofless remains of an acropolis sit on the hill.
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For example, we traveled to Athens, but couldn't afford the entrance fee for the Acropolis.
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"I wanted to pick a name that related to Greek mythology, like Acropolis," he said.
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For example, what can they find if they search for the Acropolis in The Times?
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People walk their dogs at a hill overlooking the Acropolis in Athens on March 24.
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Named for Apollo's lover, it had its own Acropolis and a stretch of Cyclopean walls.
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Named for Apollo's lover, it had its own Acropolis and a stretch of Cyclopean walls.
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I also really like ACROPOLIS, GO DEEP, WHAT A DUMP, LEMON/LIME and PEA-BRAINED.
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My last strip club meal was at Acropolis, known lovingly as A-Crop among the locals.
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The frieze is a series of depictions of worshippers moving towards the Parthenon on Athens's Acropolis.
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That afternoon at the Acropolis, I was thrilled to see the wonder in my kids' eyes.
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Abbot Eliseus told me that there are two foundational monuments in Greece: the Acropolis and Athos.
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When we talk about ruins, we often turn to ancient examples — Machu Picchu, the Acropolis, Pompeii.
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There's no way for us to know (there's only six kilometers between the Acropolis and Faliron Delta).
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Mr. Obama took advantage of his trip to Greece to make his first visit to the Acropolis.
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Budget-friendly restaurants and low admission fees to the Acropolis Museum help keep Athens an affordable destination.
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A dog runs in a blossomed field in Athens, with the ancient Acropolis in the background, Feb. 10.
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They captured the first photographs of the Athenian Acropolis, the Pyramids, Jerusalem, and many other monuments and cities.
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Also referencing the refugee situation is Rebecca Belmore's large marble tent installed on Filopappou Hill, overlooking the Acropolis.
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And she marvels at the gleaming new Acropolis Museum, where tourism and propaganda have reshaped a cultural landscape.
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It is a mere slingshot distance from the Acropolis and a truly privileged spot in which to work.
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The 21-room AthensWas, with its clean-lined Classic Modernist interiors, is steps away from the Acropolis Museum.
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From Charlie's block-color dresses to sweeping views of the Acropolis by night, every detail tells a tale.
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Up on the Acropolis, the Parthenon remains strewn with rubble, and wooden scaffolding is visible behind the colonnade.
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A colossal eldritch Garfield is mounted on a rocky acropolis somewhere in the midst of a violent ocean storm.
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Acropolis Aviation recently unveiled the interior of its new Airbus ACJ320neo aircraft, of which it is the first operator.
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Bob Polizos, 76, founder of Acropolis Steakhouse Strip Club: I grew up in Greece in a small village up north.
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When I found the [Acropolis] building, the old owners had gone broke, so it was a cheap place to buy.
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Andreas Polizos, Acropolis manager and owner's son: We do 220 to 100 orders from our to-go window a day.
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Supporters of Elgin claim that he removed the friezes from the at the acropolis with permission from the Ottoman Sultan.
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Take a walking tour of Athens to hit all of the major sites: Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the Panathenaic Stadium.
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The Acropolis is different because the photos never capture how breathtakingly it sits on a sheer cliff over the city.
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This installment brings the Foo Fighters to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a stone theater in the Acropolis of Athens.
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Still, it attracted spectators to places as varied as the Acropolis in Athens, pictured above, to sand dunes in Mexico.
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Greece's Central Archaeological Council rejected a request by Gucci to stage a 15-minute catwalk show on the Athens Acropolis.
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The temple of the Parthenon on the rock of the Acropolis, located in the heart of Athens, dates back to the classical period of antiquity - the 5th century BC. For decades there have been efforts to preserve and protect the Acropolis and its monuments, an operation that has been sped up since the mid 1970s.
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It is the first time that hot weather has shut down the Acropolis this summer, though it also happened last year.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - No damage was reported to the Acropolis following a 5.1 magnitude earthquake recorded in Athens on Friday, authorities said.
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In its time, it was variously a Greek acropolis, Roman fort and, under Mussolini's regime, both garrison and Fascist concentration camp.
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We were standing on the Panathenaic way, the ancient processional path that led through the Agora and up to the Acropolis.
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The Parthenon on the Acropolis is made of marble and holds the famous statue of Athena, the patron goddess of Athens.
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It's the stairs of the Met that, mostly naked, seem to rival the steps of the older, wiser Colosseum or Acropolis.
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But then, at the top of the steps, we would find ourselves directly facing the sweeping south slope of the Acropolis.
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In his home, Mr. Drucker channeled "Robsjohn-Gibbings in Athens," he said, referring to the historicist designer's apartment overlooking the Acropolis.
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The first retrospective of Hopinka's work in Los Angeles will be screening on May 2, hosted jointly by LACMA and Acropolis Cinema.
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The sun was starting to dip behind the Acropolis just to the south of my perch at the oldest café in Athens.
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In Astoria, a two-bedroom, one-bath walk-up apartment with windows on three sides in the Acropolis Gardens co-op complex.
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But the Acropolis was not available (and Chanel, whose Greek-themed resort show took place a few weeks ago, already did that).
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Athens, Greece This modern hostel is walking-distance from the most popular attractions in Athens (think: the Panathenaic Stadium and the Acropolis).
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Four people were injured after lightning struck the Acropolis Hill area in Athens on Wednesday, an ambulance service official said.
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If you let your eyes drift up from the monument, your vision is seized by the vast sacred rock of the Acropolis.
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Located in the capital's commercial district, Hilton Athens has 506 rooms, some of which offer views of the Acropolis, and three swimming pools.
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Visitors to the Acropolis in Athens enjoy a unique view of the supermoon, framed by ruins of the Propylaea, on November 20163, 22016.
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Visitors to the Acropolis in Athens enjoy a unique view of the supermoon, framed by ruins of the Propylaea, on November 14, 2016.
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We ditched the midday sun for a tour of the Acropolis museum that a local friend had arranged with her favorite tour guide.
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Under Michelle Tattenbaum's direction, the members of the Bats acting company play the women and men of Acropolis U. 866-811-75553, theflea.
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Under Michelle Tattenbaum's direction, the members of the Bats acting company play the women and men of Acropolis U.2129-26200-4111, theflea.
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In central Athens, al fresco boîtes boasting views of the Acropolis and Lycabettus Hill grace countless rooftops of deceptively ordinary-looking cement blocks.
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Witnessing the magnificent Acropolis is something that should be at the top of your list, but it's not just about the classics here.
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That third feed from the Acropolis is a reminder that the ties between this country and Germany are far older than the eurozone.
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Based on the most prominent theory, a hydraulic mechanism powered a water clock device with water flowing from a stream on the Acropolis hill.
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In ordinary years young Athenian girls would weave a cloak which was ceremonially wrapped around a wooden likeness of the goddess atop the Acropolis.
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The hour is dusk in my romantic vision, with the sun setting crimson over the Acropolis and me striding (not fading!) into the sunset.
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We looked out over the Mets district, a palimpsest of red tile and concrete housing blocks behind which the Acropolis rises like a revelation.
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A picture posted on a fan's Instagram shows what appears to be Zendaya and Elordi hanging out on line for the Acropolis in Athens.
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Excavations since the 1930s have uncovered the Agora, an open green area, about 30 acres sloping down northwest from the rock of the Acropolis.
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Jutta Stroszeck, with the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, discovered the well during an excavation in Kerameikos, a neighborhood just northwest of the Acropolis.
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Watch a concert ring in the new year in Hanoi, Vietnam, at noon EST, Greece launch fireworks at the Acropolis in Athens at 5 p.m.
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The Athenians believed Pheidippides's story, and when their affairs were once more in a prosperous state, they built a shrine to Pan under the Acropolis.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Climate change is threatening ancient Greek monuments, among them the Acropolis, one of the most-visited archaeological sites in the world, scientists said.
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The Acropolis, a complex of ancient Greek buildings including the Parthenon located on a rocky hilltop overlooking the capital, was intact, according to the authorities.
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On Tuesday and Wednesday, the president visited Greece, where he climbed the Acropolis in Athens, toured the Parthenon and met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
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"Stand at the foot of the Acropolis and then stand on the steps of Independence Hall and you can sense the connection," Mr. Papagiannis said.
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On Saturday, the artist Ross Birrell is to commence "The Transit of Hermes," in which equestrians will begin a ride from the Acropolis to Kassel.
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Several of the old stone and frame buildings in the historic district are rundown, and not in the poetic way of a New Jersey acropolis.
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He was ridiculed for a photo-shoot in Paris Match, a French celebrity magazine, which showed him dining stylishly on his roof-terrace beneath the Acropolis.
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Fey, former Acropolis stripper, now bartender at Casa Diablo 2: Some girls have left Acrop to work here—and they bring their regular guys with them.
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He was like, Meet me at the foot of the Acropolis tomorrow at 10 AM. Within three weeks I was writing for SKATEISM, doing proper articles.
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ATHENS — Tucked down a backstreet in the city's central area, some 218 Yazidi refugees live in a rundown apartment block with spotty views of the Acropolis.
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ATHENS — Tucked down a backstreet in the city's central area, some 363 Yazidi refugees live in a rundown apartment block with spotty views of the Acropolis.
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MICHAEL COOPER Yanni, he of the Fabio-ish hair and the gently soaring pop-symphonic confections, has never done anything better than his 1993 Acropolis show.
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The technology could instantly transport users to the Louvre in Paris, the Acropolis in Athens and the Guggenheim in New York City, all in one day.
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Before a view of the Acropolis, Marzia raises her arms triumphantly in her film, a letter home to Afghanistan, where she was unable to attend school.
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We could follow the road as it extends eastward from the agora of the ancient city and then bends around the southeast corner of the Acropolis.
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"The meteorological service had forecast that the temperature felt on the hill would be forbidding, more than 44 degrees Celsius," said a spokeswoman for the Acropolis complex.
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Films and other cultural events in the vicinity of the antiquities should be "an exception, not an addiction", says Manolis Korres, doyen of conservation at the Acropolis.
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He asks her to wear a bold yellow dress on their "date," and he takes her to the Acropolis, where things start to heat up between them.
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The summit offers a panorama of Athens and the Acropolis Museum, as well as views of the waterfront, where the mega-yachts of the superrich are berthed.
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Even the most off-the-beaten-path type of traveler would be sorry to miss the Acropolis, which rightfully takes up a lofty place above the city.
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They had dinner at the top of Mount Lycabettus, in Athens; and Millan popped the question as the couple overlooked the Acropolis, with a violinist playing behind them.
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The move angered Acropolis owner Bob Polizos, a proud carnivore who famously serves $7 ribeyes, and claims to raise some of the cattle himself on a nearby farm.
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The Ledra, with stunning Acropolis views, once hosted Hollywood stars and politicians but was forced to shut in 2016 by the economic crisis after more than three decades.
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As evening descends on Athens, life continues on for most in the city: families walk to tavernas for dinner, tourists pass by on their way to the Acropolis.
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At the port of Piraeus, near the Zafiriou family's home, thousands of tourists board hulking ferry boats for vacations on the sunny Greek islands after visiting the Acropolis.
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From the ancient Acropolis to a daring Renzo Piano-designed cultural center, the Greek capital is luring record numbers of tourists to explore its monuments, new and old.
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About 20 minutes away there's a marble cave where they've harvested a lot of the marble that has been used in historical structures around Greece like the Acropolis.
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Not long afterward, he alighted in Athens, visited the Acropolis, made his way to the port of Piraeus, boarded a ferry, and disembarked at the island of Hydra.
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Not to spoil the best bits of the book, but there was a spontaneous popular revolution, a siege in the Acropolis, and more Spartans than you'll see in 300.
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Eventually the Acropolis, and the larger park — renamed Marcus Garvey Park in 1973 in honor of the Jamaican-born Black nationalist — became a haven for drug dealers and addicts.
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Girault's daguerreotypes include the earliest surviving photographs of many notable cities and monuments in the Eastern Mediterranean: the Athenian Acropolis, Jerusalem, the impressive Roman temples of Baalbek, and more.
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Over the years, international engagements have included Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, South Africa, Israel, Palestine, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Germany, Poland, Bahrain, and The Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
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It also had five tracks instead of three, "Highland" and "Sand Park" circuits bolstering the beginner, intermediate and difficult courses, here named "Big Forest", "Bay Bridge" and "Acropolis" respectively.
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The apartment-like design of Acropolis' ACJ320neo is complete with a master bedroom and en-suite bathroom, with the latter being the largest ever featured on an Airbus aircraft.
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The current show draws on the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the Acropolis Museum and Greek regional museums, as well as the Louvre, the British Museum and the Met.
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On our way back to the city we stopped at Plantel Matilde, a 39,000-square-foot arts center rising like a modern acropolis in the middle of the jungle.
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A teacher who lost her job during the crisis, she had struggled to get by until offering the apartments, in the popular Koukaki neighborhood near the Acropolis, as Airbnbs.
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The elongated building at top right is part of a complex that may predate 500 BC. Across the valley is a large acropolis, which is likely a thousand years younger.
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By the time of Girault's photograph three years later, the mosque is gone, replaced by scaffolding — the work of restoring the original classical grandeur of the Acropolis was well underway.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A strike by Greek culture ministry workers on Thursday shut the ancient Acropolis, which is the country's most popular attraction, and left a long line of tourists outside.
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There was no orchestra this time, but the backing band dwelled on feverishly virtuosic solos — frenetic drums, shredding violins — as if to compensate for the lack of Acropolis-scale forces.
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A hand-carved marble refugee tent pitched near the Acropolis by the Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore remains a world away from the investment-grade art of auctions and art fairs.
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For inspiration, he says, he looked to a museum showcasing the medieval ruins of a Norwegian town, designed by Sverre Fehn, and the paths around the Acropolis devised by Dimitris Pikionis.
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Chosen to handle the project was the National Technical University of Athens, which had worked on restorations of the Acropolis in Athens and the Hagia Sophia mosque turned museum in Istanbul.
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Dimitrios Pandermalis, curator of the new Acropolis Museum, explains in a video from the Onassis Foundation that the Villa of Dionysus, containing the mosaic on its floor, was revealed in 1987.
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Other classic international attractions that also rank high for value include the Eiffel Tower, Egypt's Pyramids, the Colosseum in Rome, the Great Wall of China and the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece shut the Acropolis Hill for a few hours on Thursday to protect visitors to one of the world's most popular tourist attractions from a heatwave that has engulfed Athens.
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Its use as a Muslim place of worship saved it from the hands of British diplomat Lord Elgin, who took prized Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis some 200 years ago, Daskalakis said.
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Presented by LA Filmforum and Acropolis Cinema, it makes its Los Angeles premiere this coming Tuesday in what is likely to be the artist's final live reading and performance of the film.
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Acropolis Aviation received its first Airbus ACJ320neo in January 2019 but the aircraft only began flying in March 2020 as it spent 13 months getting its ultra-luxurious cabin installed in Switzerland.
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One of the best vacations for both learning and lounging we ever took was to the Peloponnesus, an unspoiled part of Greece, with an initial stop in Athens to visit the Acropolis.
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He told me that Boris Johnson, the British foreign minister, had announced plans to help reassemble the Nimrud fragments remaining from the recent destruction, following the model of the Acropolis, in Athens.
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Or the Oresteia trilogy, whose theme is the nature of justice and which even ends up in a law court on the Areopagus, the Hill of Ares just next to the Acropolis.
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While early morning tourists at the Acropolis were treated to a snow-globe scene, locals had to contend with roads made impassable by ice and many schools were closed in the Athens region.
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When it comes to dining in a crane above the Acropolis or in the spray of a waterfall in the Philippines, you'll need your sense of adventure just to get to the table.
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Even though the Acropolis hill, where the Parthenon stands, is probably Greece's best preserved archaeological site, there are signs that climate change has been increasingly affecting the monuments that stand on the hill.
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ATHENS, Greece – Greek anarchist activists have staged a peaceful protest on the ancient Acropolis in Athens in support of a convicted far-left terrorist serving multiple life terms for a string of murders.
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Athens has repeatedly called for the permanent return of the 2,500-year-old sculptures that Britain's Lord Elgin removed from the Acropolis temple during a period when Greece was under Ottoman Turkish rule.
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"They are not Macedonians, they are Slavs," Michalis Patsikas, an organizer of the protests and self-described patriot, said on the eve of the vote as he sipped a coffee under the Acropolis.
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He dabbled in even-easier listening, without surging Acropolis-style drama ("If I Could Tell You"); pan-global flutes ("Ethnicity"); and collaborations with crossover opera stars like Plácido Domingo and Renée Fleming ("Inspirato").
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The museum, which sits at the foot of the Acropolis hill in Athens, houses masterpiece sculptures of Greek antiquity, including works from the Parthenon, one of the most influential buildings in Western civilization.
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Athens has repeatedly called for the permanent return of the 2,500-year-old sculptures that Britain's Lord Elgin removed from the Acropolis temple during a period when Greece was under Ottoman Turkish rule.
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The white pillars of the Parthenon, which sits at the top of the Acropolis, still stand strong 2,500 years on - a symbolic testament to the enduring idea of a government by and for the people.
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Even as Obama was standing at the Acropolis in Greece hailing the ancient wisdom of democracy, the French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen was declaring an end to the globalized vision he's worked to advance.
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Stay in a decent hotel for less than $100 a night and wake up fully refreshed and prepared to visit the country's iconic landmarks such as the Acropolis of Athens and Temple of Olympian Zeus.
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From its overnight perch at the Acropolis museum, it traveled through the streets of Athens before being carried into the stadium - which was built in 330 BC - by Greek high jump Olympic medalist Niki Bakoyianni.
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In less than four minutes, this video captures the process through which restorers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art prepared three pieces by Émile Gilliéron for display in the new exhibition Watercolors of the Acropolis.
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The floating concept provides unparalleled views of the city and Acropolis, while diners nosh on things like sauteed shrimp over a quinoa salad, soup made with ginger and bee pollen, and slow-cooked beef tenderloin.
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In northern Greece, temperatures plummeted to freezing levels not seen since the 1960s, while Athens' ancient monuments, such as the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis rising above the city, wore a rare mantle of snow.
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Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of the Acropolis Museum and director of excavations at Dion, Greece, said that when the panels are returned to Dion, a new museum there will allow visitors to watch conservators at work.
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Every Sunday morning, in a less-trodden commercial area of the city near the Acropolis, vintage shoppers forgo the typical tourist shops to scour the many palaiopoleia, or stalls, of this dusty antique flea market.
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To visualize this symbol of Western civilization without the scaffolding, walk down to the Acropolis Museum where you'll come face-to-face with a recreation of the intricate frieze that once wrapped around the temple.
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Athens has repeatedly called for the permanent return of the 2,500-year-old sculptures that Britain's Lord Elgin removed from the Acropolis temple in the early nineteenth century, when Greece was under Ottoman Turkish rule.
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Designed by architect Bernard Tschumi with a view to reflect the mathematical and conceptual clarity of ancient Greece, the Acropolis Museum has attracted more than 14 million visitors since it opened doors 10 years ago.
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Tsalkanis traces the evolution of sites like the Acropolis throughout the ages, the rise and fall of the city walls, the Agora, which served as center of city life, and various temples, libraries, and other fortifications.
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In the 19th century, Greek authorities demolished a mosque in the Parthenon and the Frankish Tower on the Acropolis; in the 20th century, the French demolished the modern village from the Temple of Bel at Palmyra.
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Archaeological sites and several museums were shut in protest including the Acropolis hill and the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena on top of the hill that overlooks the capital.
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The Iron Age prosthetic was discovered by archaeologists 17 years ago in a plundered tomb that was carved into an older burial chamber known as Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna, an acropolis just west of Luxor, Egypt.
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Xi expressed his support of Greece's demand to win back the 2,500-year-old friezes during a visit to the Acropolis Museum on Tuesday, October 12, where he was accompanied by his Greek president Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
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Landmarks in other countries across the world – including the Acropolis hill in Greece, the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye in the United Kingdom – also descended into darkness briefly to mark this year's Earth Hour.
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UK charter operator Acropolis Aviation took delivery of the first Airbus ACJ320neo in 2019 at Airbus' main production facility in Toulouse, France, after which it went straight to Switzerland to have its luxurious interior cabin installed.
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In "Lysistrata," the women of Greece decide to put an end to the Peloponnesian War by barricading themselves in the Acropolis and withholding sexual favors until the men of Athens and Sparta put down their spears.
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An Airbnb gift card can get you anything from a week's stay in Paris to a sushi making class in Tokyo or a tour of the Acropolis in Athens, to even a hiking adventure in Colorado.
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During the first 18 months, Lord Elgin paid the military governor of the Acropolis a sum amounting to 35 times his official annual salary in return for being allowed to stretch the terms of the firman.
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The institution points out that not all of the Parthenon Marbles are in London, as the Louvre, Vatican Museums, and other museums have fragments, and "approximately half of what survive from antiquity" are at the Acropolis Museum.
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Greve said middle schools and high schools from the US, Canada and even Bahrain want to send their children on field trips to places like the the Acropolis of Athens, and VR makes that cheaper than ever.
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On offer on Saturday in Philadelphia was a steroidal rendition of songs from "Live at the Acropolis" and other records, running two and a half intermissionless hours; the 1993 concert clocked in at a tight 70 minutes.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's Acropolis Museum opened an excavation site underneath its modern building on Friday, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through an ancient Athenian neighbourhood that survived from the Classical era to Byzantine times.
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Initially, Obama planned to deliver a public speech on Wednesday from the Pnyx, a rocky hill beneath the Acropolis; however, it has been rescheduled to take place at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, due to security concerns.
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Anemi Hotels, which also owns a luxurious resort on the Cycladic island of Folegandros, spent two years revamping a former apartment building into the stylish AthensWas boutique hotel, in an enviable location in the shadow of the Acropolis.
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Beyond its famous classical sites like the fifth-century B.C. ruins of the Acropolis and the Parthenon — which are best viewed in the morning when the crowds are at bay — the city is ushering in a new era.
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In 2016, Unesco named the National Museum of Western Art to its World Heritage List, joining the Acropolis of Athens and the Alhambra, as well as the monuments of Nara and Kyoto, among the lasting achievements of architecture.
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There was the sheer scope of the artistic megaproject that was the Met and Lincoln Center, muscled through by mid-20th-century power brokers, including Robert Moses and John D. Rockefeller III, who wanted an American cultural acropolis.
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" The span seemed to him like an "acropolis rising wave on wave against the blue of the Pacific sky," a "stunning thing, a painted thing like a picture of a medieval Italian city which can never have existed.
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Greece's meteorological service had forecast temperatures peaking at 38 Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) in Athens by midday, though the temperature on the Acropolis hill which overlooks the city is always higher due to its altitude and a lack of shade.
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In "'American Democracy Is Bigger Than Any One Person,' Obama Says," Gardiner Harris reports on President Obama's recent comments about our democracy: Mr. Obama took advantage of his trip to Greece to make his first visit to the Acropolis.
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They'll stay in luxury accommodation, and get to do a whole host of envy-inducing activities such as private guided tour of the Acropolis, a jeep safari tour of Mykonos' best beaches, and a sunset sailing trip in Santorini.
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Initiates for the mysteries, their stomachs empty apart from the ritual drink of kykeon, would have moved slowly through long entrance halls of the sanctuary before looking up to their right and seeing a large cave beneath the Acropolis.
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An impressionable and theatrically inclined child when the Acropolis film was omnipresent, I loved it, probably for the same reason I fell for opera around the same time: It had the kind of preposterous grandeur that matched my aspirations.
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It also outlines the legal status of the works: Lord Elgin applied to the Ottoman government, the legal authority in Athens at the time, for a firman (licence and letter of instruction) to permit his activities on the Acropolis.
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Athens, Greece (CNN)President Barack Obama issued a paean to democracy Wednesday following his tour of the Acropolis in Greece, a symbolic nod to the ancient birthplace of the system, which he insists will prevail amid challenges around the globe.
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And Tina Fordham, a political analyst at Citi, is not alone in predicting that Greece will bring up the Elgin marbles, which all Greeks believe should be returned from the British Museum in London to the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
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It doesn't get much more central than this: AthensWas presides over a prime stretch of Dionysiou Areopagitou, the major pedestrian artery that leads right to the Acropolis, meaning you're just a few minutes' stroll from some of the city's main attractions.
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Saudi Arabia believes the sixth-century city of Al Ula and 131 pristine 2,000-year-old Nabataean tombs at Mada'in Saleh will one day match the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, or the ruins at Petra, Jordan, in terms of footfall.
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The government has repeatedly denied the site and monuments could be sold, but that has not prevented protests, including a one-day strike by archaeologists in October which closed the Acropolis, an attraction for millions of Athens visitors every year.
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The $750 million center was designed by Renzo Piano to reflect the community ethos of an ancient Greek agora; Piano raised the land to create a sloping park with shaded gardens, grand plazas and views of the sea and the Acropolis.
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The Tower of the Winds, still standing on a slope on Athens's ancient Acropolis hill despite attempts by Lord Elgin to move it to Britain, has been restored and re-opened to the public for the first time in nearly 200 years.
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Lying at the foot of an acropolis in in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Philippi was a walled city founded in 213 B.C. by the Macedonian King Philip II. Boasting a theater, temple and a forum, the city was regarded as a smaller Rome.
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We are here only for one day and we will not be able to visit the Acropolis," Alexander Walter, a German civil servant on a cruise, said a few meters from its gates, where protesters hung a banner reading "NOT FOR SALE.
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This year on Europe Day—a holiday celebrating peace and unity across Europe—dozens of refugee families, who have recently found themselves stranded in Athens, climbed the Acropolis hill Monday morning as part of an attempt to raise awareness about the refugee crisis.
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The vegan flesh peddler—who says he "puts the meat on the pole, not the plate"—recently opened a second branch of the club, Dusk 'Til Dawn: Casa Diablo 2, just feet from The Acropolis, a 35-year-old strip club-cum-steakhouse.
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As well as being warm, beautiful, and welcoming, Greece is cheap: Together we spent, on average, $70/day on 21 days of delicious meals, and $21.89/day on world-class attractions such as the New Acropolis and Heraklion Archeological museums ($21 for two).
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Naturally, the whole vacation will be full of highly Instagrammable experiences, including a private guided tour of the Acropolis, a jeep safari tour of Mykonos' best beaches, a sunset sailing trip in Santorini, and a private home-hosted cooking class in Crete.
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The ancient agora at the foothill of the Acropolis doesn't see any commercial action these days, so head instead to the vibrant Varvakeios Central Market, where vendors try to outdo one another's shouts hawking fresh catches, colorful vegetables and fresh cuts of meat.
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Erected between 1830 and 1930 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Friedrich August Stüler, Ernst Eberhard von Ihne and Alfred Messel, the most distinguished architects of their time, they are great, towering edifices which both evoke the Acropolis of Athens and maintain an identity of their own.
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Permission to shoot on the Acropolis was granted to Francis Ford Coppola; the BBC's bid to use the temple at Sounion, south of Athens, for "The Little Drummer Girl", a mini-series, was accepted, too, though only after the broadcaster made revisions to its plans.
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In a parallel project organized by Future Climates entitled the "Parthenon Marbles" (2017), artist Alexandra Pirici and writer Victoria Ivanova examine the controversial request for the repatriation of marbles taken by Lord Elgin from the Acropolis in Athens to the British Museum in 1801.
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Historian Tom Holland has theorized that the Thermopylae myth was deliberately cultivated by the Athenian general and master spin-doctor Themistocles, in an effort to shore up Greek morale and stave off surrender as the flames of Athens' occupied Acropolis lit the night sky.
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Two loves in particular dominate "Greek to Me": the Acropolis and Homer, both of which Norris returns to so religiously that she often ends a passage about one or the other on a joking note, to avoid, I presume, sinking into sentimentality or self-dramatization.
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MY FIRST FULL day in Greece on this trip — I've been visiting the country for more than 237 years — I made my way to Mycenae, the 3,300-year-old acropolis 75 miles from Athens that was the turbulent base for the House of Atreus.
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Newly opened this year, the hall's decorations include a stained-glass ceiling, a life-size reproduction of part of the Acropolis, a large photograph of the battle site of Waterloo and, to one side, a grand piano and a statue of a ballet-dancing hippopotamus.
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Then there are the major public arts institutions, which were either donated to the state by private philanthropic organizations or funded before the crisis, in part with foreign money: the spectacular, largely European Union-funded Acropolis Museum, opened in 230, that rises next to the Acropolis like a glass-and-concrete mirror image; the Onassis Cultural Center, which opened in 22013 and encompasses two state-of-the-art performance halls, an open-air theater and an exhibition space; and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a Renzo Piano-designed cultural complex, completed in 220, some three miles down Siggrou Avenue from the Onassis Center on the Bay of Faliro.
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Organized by Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, the exhibition includes extraordinary marble sculpture, mosaics and jewelry from the city's religious sanctuaries, thermal baths and cemeteries, displayed in an installation filled with the sounds of birds and wildlife that inhabit the site today.
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In the original Dark Souls, once you've rung the second bell and you're at Firelink Shrine with the flooded, ruined acropolis... I looked at the pool in the flood, and I heard this grumbling sound, and then this big serpent that looked like Eraserhead came out.
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In the end, the art didn't make it into the show, but the Gurlitts did: A painting in the Neue Galerie collection by Cornelius Gurlitt's great-grandfather, Louis, a 19943th-century landscaper who traveled to Greece and took the Acropolis as a theme, is on view.
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Jewelry ATHENS — Family lore has it that when the hospital discharged each of Ilias Lalaounis's four daughters after their births, the first place their father took them was not home but to his jewelry workshop, an intricate labyrinth of studios and staircases in the shadow of the Acropolis.
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While many have noted that these figures are reminiscent of the famed Erechtheion caryatids at the Acropolis in Athens, the coiled bronze garments of The NewOnes take both the fluted robes of the Erechtheion caryatids and the exteriors of the flanking Corinthian columns and turn them inside out.
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The beautiful statue first described lay on a table in the museum on the Acropolis in May, 20093, and already some of its color had been shaken off; for as it lay it was surrounded by a little deposit of green, red and black powder which had fallen from it.
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Cylon and those who followed him took shelter in the Temple of Pallas Athena, on the Acropolis, a sacrosanct refuge, but while Cylon managed to escape, his followers were persuaded to abandon the temple on condition that their lives would be spared; they subsequently stood trial and were summarily executed.
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"They overplayed it, I felt," Yanni said of his pledge drive pre-eminence backstage at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts before playing here last Saturday, part of a three-month Acropolis anniversary tour that brings him to Radio City Music Hall this Saturday and across the country through Aug. 5.
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The property's rooms feature restored antique interiors, accented with oil paintings and ornate porcelain vases, while the rooftop restaurant offers sweeping views of the Acropolis, Lycabettus Hill and the original Olympic Stadium — as well as modern Mediterranean dishes such as Black Angus beef carpaccio topped with a quail egg and homemade goat cheese ravioli.
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In general, film and video are the show's strength: Eva Stefani's stunning mix of politics and pornography called "Acropolis;" Terre Thaemlitz's explosive video collages on American racism; and Rosalind Nashashibi's ineffably tender documentary on the daughter-and-mother painters Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild, both of whom have work of their own in the show.
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Many of the prices are at their lowest at the very end of August, which is the last part of the high season, so vacationers will be skipping out on the brunt of the crowds while still having plenty of sunshine to soak up while checkout out landmarks like the Acropolis, National Opera, and the National Library of Greece.
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It makes you consider all the other plundered marvels of human history — the decline and fall of the Library of Alexandria; ISIL's ongoing siege on heritage; the Parthenon of Athens, which has been smashed by mortars and pillaged by colonizers in the past 200 years, leaving you shaking your head as you walk back down the Acropolis.
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" He's also, you might say, a would-be Greek, that is, someone who, after years abroad, cannot see how to "find my path in my own country" and compares himself to the reproduction on the Acropolis of a caryatid that was spirited away to the British Museum a century before, "the clay copy of a living being who has remained abroad.
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